How can I find out which houses are HOUSING ASSOCIATION ?

sinbad182

I remember back in my late teens/early 20s, one of my mates bought a new build 3 bed house on a brand new, sizeable Barratts estate.

A couple of us moved in with him as lodgers, and it was depressingly easy to spot the houses rented to HA tenants. The stereotypes of these people exist for a reason, and we saw these reasons everyday. The scruffy f**kers literally lived to make life just that bit more unpleasant for their neighbours. Fights, drugs, crazy loud music, police visits, these houses had it all! I just felt sorry for the decent people who bought houses on this estate thinking they'd get a nice new house to live in, only to have these pr**ks moved in next door. Nowt snobby about not wanting to live around that.

Graham_Devon

EmRayMarRhys wrote: »

But you ARE being a snob.
One thing I will say is that actually it's an advantage being near social housing. Reason being that if there is anti social behaviour from their tenants, HAs will be proactive in trying to resolve it. A private landlord could go either way (I'm not saying all private landlords are !!!!) and they may or may not act.

Just personal opinion from a HA tenant.

<cough>

You've had a VERY good experience so far then.

Keeping_Positive

I know how to on my estate but as a scummy HA tennant I would rather not say.

bigbigmamamoo

would a postcode search on a website like ourproperty dot co dot uk, show up anything relevant?

mcc100

If you're looking to buy on a new estate then between 25% - 33% of the properties will be social housing and they stand out as they will have solar panels in the roofs.

coffee_king

Has anyone got any sensible suggestions of where I can look online (a postcode search or something)?
http://www.ourproperty.co.uk brings up nothing like that.
thanks

gabyjane

Hmm being someone who lives on a newish (3 yrs old) estate I do get quite offended when i read things like that as it is kind of tarring estates with the same brush..anyway.. ours is lovely. We have a mix of bought outright, S/O (which we are) and rented and tbh you would never know who was who (we do as know a lot of our neighbours).

We have 1 troublesome neighbour who assaults his wife (or did as all been quiet for months), some of you may have seen my posts about them and the fact the rd has petitioned to get him out means he is on his last warning therefore the quietness! unlike normal rented households there is the option to get rid of these people which i love! If he was any tenant most landlords don't care as much imo of living in other places. My friend has a neighbour who is so deaf he plays his music and tv so loud they can hear oit word for word..nothing has been done years on, my sister too had probs with her neighbours which seem,s like she is banging her head against a brick wall although think they may have moved out now..my point is normal houses/flats can be just as bad.

Our estate is 3 years old now, very well kept with monthly gardners coming round doing the grass/plants etc, pretty much everyone incl council houses are looked after so i have no worries about it. Maybe walk/drive past at diff times to see what the neighbours are like?

Good luck x

PerfectPeaches

I work for a law firm and most of my clients are housing associations and its funny how people tar them all with the same brush. Yes they have a lot of council tenants but these have been transferred over when a housing association has taken housing stock from the council (registered social landlords). Not all HA tenants are council tenants and certainly not all are the ones who abuse people, leave houses untidy and have ASBOs. Private tenants are not perfect either as well as private house owners!

And as for the solar panels being on HA houses I think that is a bit far fetched as none of my clients have solar panels on their houses! A lot of tenants in new build properties are doing a 50/50 and own by mortgage 50% of the house, so does that mean that they are scum too?

HA tenants are not all that bad but I do understand that they have given themselves a bad name over the years but you can't not live somewhere with the prospect of a HA tenant on the same estate as HA tenants can be anywhere, in a nice quiet village, suburb, city or new build estate.

The estate agent will only know a percentage of what is HA stock on a site and if they know an area well they should have a good idea of what is HA stock or stock transferred from a local council (LSVT).

crankup

Not for free.
You can use :-https://www.landregistry.gov.uk/wps/portal/Property_Search
which will tell you who owns a particular property.
£4 a go.

wessexw

Just ring the HA, I had this query before with a flat I was thinking of buying, I rang the HA about a particular address and they told me that no it wasn't one of theirs and helpfully told me that they didn't have anything on that entire road without me specifically asking that. They were quite happy to give me the info, they didn't ask why I wanted it or anything, it was freely given by them.